Wish I knew some dates on this. The saxophone family was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1840. When was it used for listening and what music. The masters never wrote anything in the orchestra for the instrument because it wasn’t invented till long after a vast majority of the masters were dead. About the only three classical writers left during this time were the Gershwins and Rachmaninoff.
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Ravel used the sax in “Bolero.”
Music by the Quintessence Saxophone Quintet. They call it Jazzentials on their Quintessence Saxophone Quintet CD, so I assumed that they arranged it, but that’s a sloppy assumption.